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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1916
Page
5
Numerous visits and family gatherings across Bloomington and surrounding towns. Residents attend Christmas events, with frequent travel to and from Indianapolis and nearby farms, plus a factory worker's homecoming and a protracted Salem meeting ongoing.
A collection of short visits and holiday gatherings across Camp Branch and Oak Grove areas. Families including Heim, Turpin, Small, Rady, Blackwood, Mullis, Goodrich, Lee, March, Denny, Britton, Ferguson, Frye, Britt, Crockett, Watkins and Bland share Christmas and weekend visits with relatives and friends at Purdue Danville Spencer Linton and Oak Grove.
Christmas passes quietly in Marco as residents attend a sacred celebration. The Marco H 8 A play The Deacon's Second Wife drew praise. Local basketball teams won three Friday night games against Pleasanville High School and Marco Independent defeated Pleasanville Independents 64 to 24. Numerous visits, family gatherings, and community events filled the day including church activities, a Christmas tree and exercises at Nebo, and a wedding shower for Mrs Dollie Chapman Hunter with over thirty gifts.
Cisco Clark visits home folks while Earnest Walls and family share Christmas with parents in Loogootee. Homer Watson of Washington township and Mrs. Edna Guthrie of Newberry join Clarence Westmorland and family for Christmas dinner. Our Sunday school attendance is noted as well.
An advertisement touts Mazema as a constitutional remedy for eczema and skin diseases. It claims standard salves are ineffective, asserts the treatment enters the blood, and promises rapid improvement. The copy urges purchasing from local druggists or mailing 50 cents to The Mazema Company in Avonmore, Pa.
The Missouri Girl returns in this season's run announced for Friday December 29. The American comedy features Zeke and Daisy as beloved characters and promises a stronger company, affordable prices, music and dancing, maintaining Fred Raymond's high standard. theatre-goers anticipate a full house and holiday entertainment.
The text notes that Robert Burns, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron did not reach forty. It states Burns and Byron died around age thirty-six or thirty-seven, while Shelley died at about thirty.
A brief exchange features a bold claim of skill by James Lowell Tennyson Browning Smythe in a life context. The dialogue hints at confidence and confrontation without broader context or outcome.
Editorial aphorism notes that progress comes from those not fully content, while complacency from the satisfied halts change. The quote credits Landor and frames dissatisfaction as a driver of innovation and benefit to society.
The federal board of arbitration awarded an eight-hour day for thirteen eastern railways switchmen, with wages up five cents per hour and pro rata overtime. The decision increases top pay from forty to forty five cents per hour, estimating daily earnings at 3.60 on eight hours and 4.50 on ten hours. The board noted limited efficiency gains and said railroads must bear the burden. Minority members dissented on the five-cent raise and eight-hour grant. The award dates back to hearings from November 13 to December 8 with 1,496 pages of testimony.
The Saturday Evening Post argues that reading matter for boys matters as much as schooling. It condemns morally framed juvenile fiction that airbrushes unlikely feats and urges parents to shield boys from books that dull imagination and promote unhealthy cravings.
A Philadelphia Led ger excerpt notes a 236 year old petition from Crewcorne residents near the Falls of Delaware. Twelve men protested Indian drunkenness and urged suppression of selling brandy and strong liquors to Indians to avert danger to homes and families.
A credit man tracked his habit of slitting and smoothing mail to save paper. He spent about seven minutes daily on the task, totaling 35 hours a year in a 300 day year. He concluded the practice wastes time and costs the firm money.
The piece contrasts harsh schooling of Shakespeare’s era and Dickens with modern approaches that foster interest to speed learning. It argues that motivating students through imagination and curiosity opens the storehouse of knowledge and emphasizes the goal of helping youths understand complex ideas.
C J Gadd of the American Iron and Steel company predicts complete replacement of oil tar and producer gas with powdered coal in metallurgical and other furnaces. He reports slack coal dried and pulverized so 83 percent passes a 200 mesh sieve burns while suspended, delivering high furnace temperatures comparable to traditional methods.
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